Are Foodbanks becoming part of our welfare system? Ministers would say no. Lord Freud, the welfare reform minister recently said “Food banks are not part of the welfare system. We have designed our welfare system to support people with advances of benefit where they require it. It is not the job of the DWP to […]

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